28 years of misrule seems to be the magic figure that triggers a wave of change in our dear land

Sep 25, 2011 Letters

Dear Editor,
Minors are forced to drop out of school and find work to help their families make ends meet. Young girls are forced to compromise their integrity to fill empty pots and stomachs. Ninety-year olds are forced to seek employment to supplement their meager old age pensions. Maternity deaths continue unabated. A visit to the public hospital is met with trepidation for fear of death from a minor medical procedure. Garbage routinely piles up across the highways, streets and parapets.
Police brutality is condoned and people live in perpetual fear of being robbed and killed. Roads and bridges built a few months ago at knock-off prices crumble and are left in disrepair. Corruption is widespread. The international community, like most Guyanese, believes that government officials are in bed with elements of the criminal underworld.
Guyana would have been like any other country if these stories were isolated cases, the kinds that occur in even the rich developed countries. Sadly, this is precisely what has come to characterize this country.
Hopelessness, poverty, fear and despair have been the products of the PPP/C’s 20 years in office. Must we wait for eight more years before this brand of governance is rejected, since 28 years of misrule seems to be the magic figure that triggers a wave of change in our dear land?
If Guyanese have any interest in securing the future of their children they will wake up from their slumber, peel away the wool from their eyes and see this government for what it is; a self serving entity preoccupied with amassing great wealth for its generals, henchmen and lackeys on the backs of the poor.
They hold the entire nation in contempt. They support and promote all manner of vulgarity and slackness, shamelessly using the entertainment industry to contain the despair of our youths. In the face of such misery, incompetence and greed, one wonders what progress the PPP/C would like us to let continue.
Gaitree Persaud

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